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Subject omission in children's language; The case for performance limitations in learning. [PDF]
Several theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon that children who are learning to speak their native language tend to omit the subject of the sentence. According to the pro-drop hypothesis, children represent the wrong grammar. According
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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Subject-tracking and topic continuity in the Church Slavonic translation of the story of Abraham and his niece Mary [PDF]
The present article addresses issues of referentiality and text cohesion in a Church Slavonic narrative text. Starting with the specific problem of referential conflict as formulated by Kibrik (19871, issues of tracking personal participants in a ...
Stern, Dieter
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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Im Kikuyu, einer in Kenia gesprochenen Bantusprache, wird Fokus systematisch durch Wortstellung markiert. In dieser Arbeit werden die verschiedenen Varianten der Markierung von Fokus in Frage-Antwortsequenzen dargestellt. Nach einem Überblick über in der
Schwarz, Florian
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Event boundary perception in audio described films by people without sight
Abstract Audio description (AD) plays a crucial role in making audiovisual media accessible to people with a visual impairment, enhancing their experience and understanding. This study employs an event segmentation task to examine how people without sight perceive and segment narrative events in films with AD, compared to sighted viewers without AD ...
Roger Johansson +3 more
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Anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian. Evidence from Romanian-Hungarian bilinguals [PDF]
The paper reports the results of an experimental study on intra-sentential anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian, by Romanian-Hungarian bilingual children.
Veronica Tomescu
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This paper analyzes preverbal overt subjects, comparing Brazilian Portuguese to (other) null-subject languages, especially within Romance. It explores syntactic and semantic properties, including resumption, ellipsis, quantifiers and scope, variable ...
Acrisio Pires
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Null Subjects in Northeast English [PDF]
This paper presents data and analysis relating to null subjects in spoken colloquial English. While English is not a „pro-drop? language (i.e.
Bailey, Laura R.
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Neste artigo, investigamos a ocorrência de sujeitos nulos e pronominais expressos em duas peças teatrais recentes, tendo dois objetivos em mente: (i) dar continuidade, de certa maneira, ao trabalho pioneiro de Duarte (1993, 1995) sobre o preenchimento de sujeitos pronominais em PB; e (ii) aplicar a hipótese do gênero semântico (de Creus & Menuzzi ...
Othero, Gabriel de Avila +1 more
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Null and overt subject biases in Spanish and Italian: a cross-linguistic comparison [PDF]
Over the last twenty years a great deal of linguistic research has investigated how anaphoric expressions retrieve their antecedents in the discourse showing that a variety of pragmatic factors together with grammatical and cognitive constraints ...
Filiaci, Francesca
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